| 
ir 
ne 
1 te 
m against 
horses ; i Which Opeth’ gion not aris tempt. 
ea 
mber of dry and timbered arroyos, 
‘avettad until late through open oak ied 
and encamped among a ealection of streams. 
running a wil- 
“ as prone locks oi blac 
announced our roach t 
have hte tiprodetial considerably nearer to 
the eastern Sierra, which show oid plain- 
ly, still covered with o which 
yeste day ant stvday Sas lak Ghcarct 
abundant - the Const Ran, 
il e made another long 
journey of about Torty miles, throu 
country uninteresting and 
grass and a ends soil, in which se 
rossed had los 
bed 
little 
branches w t their pte] 
und a good en- 
a pretty stream “hidden among 
the hills, pu handsomely ti 
:§ 
ing from n Michaux’s Sylva 
seed vessels of this tree were now just about 
Several Indians came down the river to 
see us Pa the a: 3 we ag them supper, 
steali 
April 11 to trail alon 
ng 
en 
excellent way, which, other- 
Wise, vi we should sae" found extremely bad 
and ceful 
bad travellin 
whole face 
with 
os 
of grass, 
of the ¢ the country is closely covered 
We | bottoms 
mbered, princi- beca 
with eee, cottonwoods (populus, difter- 
The. 
and j in at the eastern 
= ean og Be ahaa 
these. ‘the timber became abundant as wemneeaty } 
156 CAPT, FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. [1844. 
skinned, but handsome and Rast dé In- | sycamore, looked very refreshing among the 
oe and live principally on the | sandy hills. 
ts of the tule, of which alec’ th their huts a the evening ib ns on a large 
: aye with abundan I noticed here 
By ol observation, the latitude of the en-| in iW thowas, for the erat ie since leaving the 
campment is 36° 24’ 50’’, and longitu waters, the Mi Jalapa. 
119° 41 40”. April 12.—Along our road to-day the 
9.—For beige Pets we had very ee was altogether sandy, st vegetation 
S 
ae 
oridate gra 
timbered with wiley raid cottonwood ; « 
after ascending it for several miles, we était 
a late encampment on a little bottom, with 
scanty grass. In greater part, the vegeta- 
tion along our road consisted now of rare 
and unusual ida among which many 
a | were entirely ne 
Along the Boktnea were thickets consist- 
BEL tire inee Sorta rubs, which 
made here their firs and among 
when tip tea Lindley), a sal | 
tre ongin gt CarG culiar natural 
order, and, in its ws ral appearance ( 
ing thickets), resemblin willow. 
along the streams, 
quently supplying the place of salix longt 
folia 
April 13 —The water was low, and a few 
miles above we forded the river at a rai rapid, 
and marched in a southeasterly direction 
over a less broken country. mountains 
were now very near, occasionally loomi! ie 
out ori ig fog. In a few hou 
bottom of if creek array ait, over 
wie the sa di npr in 
any andi Immediately where 
struck it, the timber terminated ; = belie 
e right, it was a broad of dry and 
Ow 
ee 
the Sierra, 
desert and eet) plaing 
